More on the way! Thanks for watching.

Hey Christian, thanks for that! I'm very grateful to have rockstars like those two talking about Ollie. It's an exciting time in WordPress!

Sounds good, Rafael! I'll keep that in mind as I create more videos. 😎

Thanks, Nigel! I'll be doing some more of these shortly! I actually have a few recorded, I just need to edit and publish. 😎

Stay tuned, more tutorials on the way!

Hi Valerie, thanks so much! Yup, I certainly will be covering saving patterns. Stay tuned!

Stay tuned! More on the way with the full workflow of saving patterns to your theme with the site editor.

Hey there, thanks for checking out Ollie! Keep in mind that the Pagespeed Insights isn't a perfect tool and you have to read the results with some context. It looks like it's dinging me for some of the image sizes I'm using (which I'll fix), but that wouldn't affect your score once you replace the images on your site. It's already scoring 100/100 on many tests, so this is circumstantial. Block themes are inherently much faster than classic themes for many reasons, and performance is always top of mind when I'm building Ollie.

@@OllieWP Ok, I totally understand it. And to go further with website performance optimization there are a lot of things that can be done aside from the theme itself, such as using a better hosting, setting up a caching plugin such as wp rocket, using .webp images and so on. I made the test again and this time it scored 90/100 on mobile and 80/100 on desktop. This is very good result taking into account it's one of the first iterations. There's still some room for improvement with lcp fid cls but I'm sure you will be able to figure it out. I think ollie has a lot of potential and I definitely see it one day will becoming something big. I will be watching your progress closely and testing out ollie in some of my projects to see if I can give you some constructive feedback. Keep up with the good work!

Hey Aaron, I don't think there's anything in Ollie preventing it from working with ACF. If there's something specific, let me know and I'll get it fixed up!

Awesome! The group block and block spacing are both very powerful little tools!

Hey there, yup you could certainly do that. You could either add a button class to a menu item, or you could even add a button block to the nav area.

@@OllieWPGreat! Thank you.

Hey there Jonni, the transition away from Elementor is probably going to be a little tricky no matter what block theme you switch to, including Ollie. I wouldn't suggest changing the theme on your live site because there are so many things that could go sideways, depending on what Elementor features are enabled, etc. If possible, I would consider hiring someone to help transition your site to a block theme. Although it will be a bit of a transition, you will be free from the page builder plugins, and you'll be able to edit your site much easier going forward. Plus it will probably be a lot faster!

Apologies for that, I'll take a look!

@@OllieWP I just tried again, and also no confirmation email...

Hey Jeff, I haven't used Blocksy, so I can't compare. I also haven't really tested it heavily with WooCommerce. Right now, I'm focused on making Ollie a great theme to build your standard website with. To do WooCommerce really well, you basically need a theme that's well optimized for it. Maybe I'll do that one day with Ollie, but for now, I'm starting simple!

Yup, you can download the child theme on Github: github.com/OllieWP/ollie/releases/latest/download/ollie-child.zip

@@OllieWP perfect 💪🙏

Hi there, I don't know Spectra really well, so I can't say for sure. But unless it's a standard WordPress block theme, I don't think the template will easily transfer over to Ollie. Ollie ships with its own templates. You may be able to add them via a child theme though.

Hey there, thanks for the question. This is one of those topics where there isn't a right or wrong answer, especially as the editor evolves and content and design are more intertwined than ever. So it really depends on your use case and what kind of sites you're building. Patterns are pre-made designs, and those are meant to be inserted into posts and pages. So right off the bat, you're injecting design into content. That seems to be the entire aim of the block and site editor. For personal sites, landing pages, small business sites, this probably isn't something you should have to worry about. However, if you have clients, they may have a more strict separation of content and design, and for that reason, they may not be interested in fully utilizing the site editor. Those projects might be better suited for classic PHP themes. Ollie is definitely a modern theme though, and that means it's going to lean heavily into the new WordPress, and that means we're also stepping into a new paradigm of how to build with WordPress!

Hey there, can you be a little more specific what you're trying to do? Happy to help, but I'd like to know a little more about what you need first.

All of the WordPress core blocks work with Ollie! The whole theme is made of blocks. 😎

Hey Mike, where are you seeing the audio out of sync? I'm not seeing it on my end, but would love to fix it if it's a problem!

@@OllieWP ​ I have tried it in Firefox, Chrome, and Safari (all on a 2021 Macbook Pro (M1). All were out of sync when you are full screen. It is still probably out of sync when you switch to the secreen capture, but the little video in the corner is too small for it to be a distraction. It may have been be slightly better on Safari, but even there it is still out of sync. I used to have the problem when I recorded videos on my external DSLR at a different framerate from my computer and screen recorder. Even today, when I use QuickTime to record video with an external camera and external mic it looks out of sync.

@@mikelittlezed1 @OllieWP Just as a note, I think this may be a KZfaq glitch. It was out of sync for me at first but a few hours later, perfectly synced, tested in Chrome/Firefox/Safari both times as well.

Hey there, a lot of the plugins out there for adding fonts don't seem to work with block themes unfortunately. Soon, you'll be able to change the fonts right inside WordPress. Until then, you might want to use a plugin like Create Block Theme to add fonts to your site properly. You may also want to use this in conjunction with a child theme. Here's a quick tutorial on managing fonts with the Create Block Theme plugin: learn.wordpress.org/tutorial/manage-your-block-theme-fonts-with-create-block-theme/

@@OllieWP I used the Create Block Theme plugin and my local fonts uploaded correctly. However, when I went to the style editor the fonts did not show up. I’m using the Ollie child theme.

This video was created before there was a way to save the pattern to your site with the WordPress interface. Now you can do that, so I'll be making some new videos of the full process.